CROMWELL >> If, like Freddy Eynsford-Hill in “My Fair Lady,” you have often walked down this street before, did you ever wonder where and how the street got its name?

The Cromwell Historical Society is joining with members of the Cromwell High School History Club to explore some of the people and things that have given their names to roads and streets in town.

The program is titled “Where the Streets Have Old Names,” a variant of the 1987 U2 song, “Where the Streets Have No Name.”

The program will be held in the library/media center at Cromwell High School on Monday at 7 p.m. Admission is free and the event is open to the public, Historical Society President Richard F. Donohue said.

The program, subtitled “The People Behind Cromwell’s Place Names,” is the latest in a series the society is presenting under the label, “What’s In a Name.” Just last month, the society sought to answer the question of how Cromwell — and other local towns — got their names.

Monday’s program is “the culmination of a High School History Club project,” Donohue said.

“You drive by them every day - places like ‘Stocking Triangle,’ ‘Pierson Park’ and ‘Frisbie’s Landing’ — down streets called Franklin Road, Washington Road and ‘the Shunpike,’” Donohue said in a release announcing the program.

Donohue said the program “will explore the people that inspired the Town of Cromwell to memorialize them in names of its places and streets.”

Some of the names would appear to be straightforward: one would assume that Washington Road was named in honor of the nation’s first president. But, it’s well known what happens to people who “assume” something.

More to the point, is there a connection between Frisbie’s Point and the Frisbie Pie Co., late of Bridgeport, which gave its name — and pie-pan design — to the Frisbees of the 1950s and beyond?

That might sound flaky at first. But that’s what Donohoe and the students from the history club have set out to find out.

And Monday, they will share the results of their research with those lucky enough to attend the program.

As has often been said, “You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’re coming from.”

Seasonal refreshments will follow the program, Donohue said.

The high school is located on Donald Harris Drive, which is off Evergreen Road.